- Softonic Rating:
- Excellent910
- License:
- Free to try
- Added:
- March 22, 2007
- Updated:
- July 4, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 10.7 MB
- Downloads:
- 1,030
- DownloadFree to try
“The social browser for blog addicts”
by Cyril Roger
Flock is a browser for blogging and social network addicts. Based on the Mozilla infrastructure, it offers many features found in Firefox like tabbed browsing, quick RSS feed aggregation and customizable toolbars. Thanks to the web clipboard, you can copy any image or text you find on the net. Favorite links can be saved with tags and you can customize your own world, where you showcase your favorite sites, feeds and media. This brings us to one of the main features of Flock, the media bar, placed at the top of the browser. This tool lets you search and view any sort of media from sites like YouTube, Facebook or Flickr.
However the real strength of Flock comes in its social networking integration. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Xanga, Magnolia and more can be opened up from the "accounts and services" sidebar. Thanks to the people sidebar, you'll be able to quickly see all your friends from your different networks. Flock also offers up a blog editor, from which you can write up all your posts. News junkies will also like the RSS reader, also accessible from the sidebar.
While we were impressed with all the major improvements found in this new release of Flock, we felt that the sidebar was probably a bit overused. RSS feeds, social networks, favorites, and the web clipboard all open up in the sidebar, meaning you can't have them on all at once. The blog editor is a nice touch, but it's a shame that it doesn't allow you to upload images to your blog.
If your high on social networks, Flock is definitely the browser for you.
Languages:
English
Recent changes in Flock:
- Flock 1.1 has integrated popular webmail services Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.
- The Picasa photo service has been added.
- In addition to more flexibility, MyWorld has been enhanced with new Friend Activity feature for a centralized place to stay in touch with all your friends activities.
- Several performance and stability enhancements have been implemented and several memory leaks have been fixed.
OS requirements for Flock:
- OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Quickly post photo on Flickr
- Drag and drop anything to clipboard
- Integrates Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other social networks
- People sidebar loads all your friends
- Doesn't upload images to blog
- Fits too many features in the sidebar
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From the publisher of Flock
Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base. It is a free, open source web browser. The main features of Flock are:
Favorites & history search
- Simply click the Star in the URL bar and you've flagged a page
- Add tags to Favorites by simply clicking the little arrow next to the Star icon
- Pages you've starred as Favorites float to the top when you do a History Search
- History Search is stored locally for privacy
- Most Frequently Visited / Most Recently Added
- Have multiple Favorites toolbars and switch back and forth between them
Feeds
- Flock puts an icon in the URL bar when a site has one or more feeds
- When you star a web page that has a feed, the feed is cached and updated every hour
- Flock automatically creates an aggregated view for all of your collections
Blogging
- Blog editor that works with WordPress, Movable Type and Typepad and Blogger
- You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks
- You can drag and drop pictures from our integrated Flickr topbar right into your blog post
- The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later
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Posts about Flock in our blog
- A quick look at Flock 2 by Nicholas Mead
- Why I might be switching to Flock by Nicholas Mead
- Why I won't be switching to Flock by Cyril Roger
- Download of the Day: Flock 0.7.13.1 Beta by Elena Santos
- Flock on! by Tom Clarke
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User Rating
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- Currently 9/10.
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- Currently 9/10.
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- Currently 9/10.








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